Zelenskyy: Ukraine Informs Partners About Russian Strike on Nuclear Waste Storage

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that Russian forces struck a building at a spent nuclear fuel storage facility near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. He described the attack on the "critically important infrastructure object" as "extremely vile."

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Today, the Russians again struck in the special territory around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. A Shahed hit one of the buildings of the centralized spent nuclear fuel storage. An extremely important infrastructure object and an extremely vile Russian strike.

Zelenskyy stated on Facebook that a "Shahed" drone hit one of the buildings at the centralized storage facility for spent nuclear fuel. He assured that radiation levels did not exceed normal background levels and that Ukrainian rescuers quickly extinguished the fire at the site.

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Ukraine's Foreign Ministry, Energy Ministry, and all our services are already working to ensure that every one of our partners knows what happened.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, energy ministry, and other services are working to inform international partners about the incident. Zelenskyy called on the international community to take new, concrete actions to make Russia feel the consequences of its "terrorist war."

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There were no readings exceeding the normal radiation background level, and Ukrainian rescuers quickly extinguished the fire at this facility after the strike.

He also noted that civilian objects in 13 Ukrainian regions were attacked overnight. Over the past week, Russia has launched a total of 88 missiles, over 3,250 attack drones, and about 1,800 guided aerial bombs into Ukraine. The National Security and Defense Council's Center for Countering Disinformation released photos showing damage to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant from the June 7 strike.

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I call on the international community to take new concrete actions that will force the aggressor to feel the consequences of his terrorist war.